Incidentally, it seems only fair and balanced
®* to post the link to, and also an excerpt from, the
companion article that has a rather different view:
Quote:
Orthodox science has difficulty predicting the future, especially if we have experienced nothing like it in the past.
Computer models are essential to these predictions, but to many non-scientists, they are an unknown quantity.
However, a new development in the Fourth Assessment is that it concludes, from an examination of 29,000 data sets, that the impacts of climate change occurring now can be observed everywhere on our planet.
It is evident in its impacts on animals, plants, water and ice.
This is traditional science-based observation and measurement, not "arm-waving" with computer models.
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Steve
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I now owe Fox a quarter. 